A beardless JD Vance seemed nervous as he stepped to the microphone at the chichi Ritz-Carlton Hotel a few blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., on the last day of the inaugural “National Conservatism” conference on July 16, 2019, a few months before Donald Trump would lose the presidency to Joe Biden. Tieless in a beige-brown jacket over a blue pinstripe shirt, Vance stood at Nat Con 1, as it’s called, in front of a screen dotted with the National Conservative logo mixed with that of the sponsor, the Edmund Burke Foundation.
Vance’s topic was “Beyond Libertarianism”—which proved to be accurate as he reconstituted old “positive” eugenicists’ ideas that the government should help fill and fund the births for more children, while the author of “Hillbilly Elegy” repeatedly called people—OK, women mostly—who chose not to have them “psychopaths.”
“We want more babies because children are good, and we believe children are good because we’re not sociopaths,” he said.
The sponsoring organization is based in The Hague and tied from its launch to far-right movements in The Netherlands that supported the rise of Geert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch “Party of Freedom,” who is closely allied with far-right, anti-immigration European leaders such as Marine Le Pen of France’s National Rally.
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At the Ritz for Nat Con 1, only seven of 46 conservative speakers were women; the vast majority were white men. Among them was conference chairman Christopher DeMuth, a man considered conservative royalty due to key roles at the Federalist Society, the American Enterprise Institute and currently as a Distinguished Fellow in American Thought at the Heritage Foundation. Heritage is the progenitor of Project 2025, which has big, hairy ideas about what to do about unwanted immigrants: build a “deportation machine.” Vance, as you will recall, wrote the forward to the P25 book that they delayed until after Election Day. In it, Vance said, “It’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lay ahead, these
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